Ron Howard was five when he made his cinema debut in the drama of the Hungarian Revolution of Anatole Litvak in 1959 “The Journey”. A year later, the red head scamp was distributed in the role of Opie Taylor, the son of Mayberry, the sheriff of Caroline du Nord Andy Taylor in “The Andy Griffith Show”, which had the effect of transforming it in a small American brother. Viewers saw Howard Grandir throughout the 1960s, so they felt like they had a touch of skin in the game when he played the recent graduate of the Steve Bolender high school “American graffiti” by George Lucas. Then he picked up the role of Richie Cunningham in the sitcom Abc “Happy Days”, how much he seemed to be a family. Everyone wanted Howard excel.
If, however, everyone was honest with himself, it was difficult to see Howard’s actor’s actor much longer than the “happy days”. He had a limited scope and did not seem to shake his character Pipsqueak. Fortunately, Howard had become disinterested to play and had his eyes on the staging. Before being sought in “Happy Days”, he had registered at the film school at the University of Southern California. Actually, Howard is almost returned to the USC At the start of the race for “Happy Days”, when the series was recovered due to the difficulties of the notes.
While Howard led on the sitcom until his contract was underway, he managed to run a film while shooting the show (“Grand Theft Auto” of 1977) and has not waste time to undertake a Career in full -time cinema once it was free from all the obligations of “happy days”. It worked exceptionally well for him (he won the best director Oscar in 2002 for “a Beautiful World), but you might be surprised to learn that he refused the opportunity to improve his job by performing a single episode of “Happy Days”.
Ron Howard was focused on the film feature film
When Howard appeared on The Podcastless without intelligence With Jason Bateman, Will Arnett and Sean Hayes in 2020, he revealed that his interest in directing was triggered by his beginnings on the set of “The Andy Griffith Show”. As he said to the trio:
“I was able to be part of this show and be part of this process which included the cameras operators. .
In the 1970s, Howard was wise enough to understand the difference between directing an episode of television and dam, say: “the graduate”. He desperately wanted to try his hand at the latter, but he did not see the path of the masterpiece of Mike Nichols emanating from the realization of traffic in a television sitcom. Howard was also respectful of His co-stars have needs on “happy days”, And I didn’t want to throw a gunk in a well -oiled machine. Jerry Paris was the help of the series and, according to Howard, he knew better than anyone how to deliver what viewers demanded from the program every week.
Howard’s patience has paid, and although he has never made a classic at the level of “The Graduate”, at least we have “EDTV”, and it is not poverty!
